There have been a few papers coming out of Poland/ Russia – mostly from 6-8 years ago concerning a new type of nuclear fission reactor known as the DNFR. The design combines features of cold fusion (deuterium loaded palladium) with uranium fission.
This could have been huge if China had gotten into the act since they have the need to advance this kind of concept on an expedited basis. It is not clear if the technology went black or was abandoned. It can be seen as a threat to powerful groups who receive billions in massive funding for hot fusion. But that assumes it is more than hand waving. Plus… It does seem at first blush to be impossible to combine cold fusion with nuclear fission but that is what the paper below explains - and it could work – especially if you believe Holmlid. Most of mainstream fizzick is going to say BS but it deserves to be heard, on account of Holmlid. The key is deuterium loading and an output of neutrons or another catalytic fission trigger…- which is not part of normal cold fusion of course. Actually there is another detail which is being called “new synthesized object (NSO)” which looks like Holmlid’s muons (mesons). The NSO is produced in a chamber with loaded deuterium under irradiation by gammas. Note that this is not a hybrid of uranium fission using the hot fusion add-on accelerator (which is interesting in its own right) but instead is a hybrid of uranium fission and what looks like cold fusion since it involves deuterium-loaded metals. A few papers are behind paywalls but accessible thru Sci-Hub. Nothing shows up recently which could be open to interpretation. Here is the main paper. https://slideheaven.com/deuteron-disintegration-thermonuclear-and-nuclear-fission-reactions-induced-by-q.html Notably “the coefficient of process efficiency greatly exceeds unity” In fact the COP for producing makeup neutrons is said to be 10 (compared to the power used by the gamma source). This is in contrast to accelerator driven hybrid systems (ADS) where the efficiency is 5 orders of magnitude less than this and the cost much higher. A new type of reactor (deuterated nuclear fission reactor) DNFR is/was proposed. This can be a modular subcritical reactor with either no dedicated beam line or more likely a few desktop accelerators to provide gammas to irradiate palladium or titanium which is loaded with deuterium and is placed external to the fission fuel. Yes, of course this is not true cold fusion but it does show the huge beneficial effect of deuterium loading in metals. (assuming the paper is accurate, which is never a given these days). The cost of power would be low if a modular subcritical design is put into mass production (actually it is called “armory production” which is not mass production per se, as with automobiles - but much cheaper than one-off which is the way it is done now. Too bad that there is not more information out there about this development.
